- From: Rainer Klute <klute@nads.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:18:54 +0200
- To: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, "Rainer Klute" <klute@nads.de>
>Ah, ok. But why does the WebTechs validator complain when I feed an
>HTML document containing an <!ENTITY> declaration (copied from the
>HTML 3.2 DTD, but with a different name to avoid duplicates) to it?
>Shouldn't it be possible to declare new entities in an HTML document?
>
>Or is there simply a restriction on *where* such declarations may be
>used? I find it very strange that you can put <!-- --> anywhere, but
>not <!ENTITY foo CDATA ">"> or something like that.
Exactly. That's the difference between the DTD and the document
the DTD applies to. All you can do is to modify/extend the DTD
within the DOCTYPE declaration.
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Received on Tuesday, 30 July 1996 09:20:42 UTC